Soap dish for sinks



Feb. 9, 1937. w. c. GROENIGER SOAP DISH FOR SINKS Filed Sept. 14, 19:55

INVENTOR, Wylham QGroemger if HIS MORNEY Patented Feb. 9, 1937 UNITEDSTATES PATENT ()FFICE SOAP DISH FOR SINKS Application September 14,1935, Serial No. 40,529

2 Claims.

My present invention relates to plumbing fixtures and more particularlyto an improved soap dish for laundry trays and the like.

In an improved form of laundry devised by me, I preferably arrange atone corner, or one side of the tray an outlet or discharge chamber, andprovide a passage from such discharge chamber to the tray at the lowestportion of the tray, and install in such communicating passage a sheargate valve, such as is described and claimed in my copending applicationSerial No. 29,904, filed July 5, 1935. For simplicity of constructionand to provide an overflow means from the tray into the outlet ordischarge chamber, I arrange the inner wall of the chamber to be of lessheight than the height of the tray, I also preferably close the openupper end of such chamber with a grating, such grating having formedtherein a bearing member for the vertically sliding operating means forthe shear gate valve. Also, and as a feature of my present invention, Iconstruct the grating above referred to in the form of a soap dish. Withsuch form of soap dish any drip from the soap or other cleansing agentfalls directly into the outlet or discharge chamber and not into thetray. The soap dish member is removably secured to the open upper end ofthe outlet or discharge chamber and may be readily removed therefrom toallow access to the chamber, and to any mechanism that may be desirablylocated therein.

A feature of my invention, therefore, is an improved soap dish forlaundry trays and the like.

A feature of my invention is a combined overflow grating and soap dishfor laundry trays and the like.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating a preferred embodiment of myinvention,

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a portion of the laundry or like tray showingmy improved invention attached thereto;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Referring to the drawing, Ill designates a laundry tray or the like,having at its rear end an apron II which lies against a supporting wall.Provided around the upper peripheral edge of the tray III is a roundedmolding I2, such rounded molding on the front ofthe sink I0 extendingdownwardly to form an apron or similar construction I3. At one corner ofthe tray, shown in the drawing, there is arranged, spaced from thecontiguous wall of the tray, a wall I4, which is formed integral withthe tray structure and forms with the outer wall of the tray structure,an outlet or discharge chamber It. The upper edge of the wall, asindicated by the reference numeral I6, lies at a convenient distancebelow the upper edge of the molding I2 about the periphery of the trayID. The upper end of the chamber being thus open and lying below thelevel of the molding I2, acts as an overflow for the tray I0.

Associated with the outlet or discharge chamber I5 and located in thelower end of the wall I4 adjacent to the bottom of the tray I0 and in amanner similar to that shown and described in my copending applicationSerial No. 29,904 above referred to, is a shear gate valve (not shown).Such shear gate valve is operated by an operating rod II, to the upperend of which is attached an operating handle I8, which operates in avertical direction in order to operate the shear gate valve abovereferred to.

In order to form a bearing for the operating handle I8 and as acomponent part of my present invention, I have provided a slotted memberI9, secured to lugs 20 by screws 2I. The lugs 20 are formed integralwith the tray structure I0. At the peripheral edges of the slots, whichare indicated by the numeral 22, are raised portions 23, and whichraised portions at their outer ends, or the ends adjacent to the basinportion of the tray I0, are raised and rounded as indicated by referencenumeral 24. The raised portions 23 and the rounded portions 24constitute respectively a support for a cake or bar of soap or othercleansing medium, and a means for preventing the sliding off of such baror cake from the members 23 into the tray Ill.

Formed in the member or cover I9, is a bearing 25, and in which theoperating handle I8 for the shear gate valve above referred to isslidably mounted. The location of the bearing 25 is between the row ofraised portions 23 and one end of the member I9.

The raised portions 23 are of such height that any water which may be inthe tray Ill when such tray is full may flow in between the raisedportions 23 and down through the various slots 22 without coming intoactual physical contact with the cake or bar of soap or other cleansingagent on the portions 23, so that the member I9 performs its function ofoverflow through the grating into the tray Ill without interfering withthe function of the raised members 23, and 24 as a soap dish.

Various embodiments of my invention, as above described, will readilyoccur to those skilled in the art and. I am not to be limited to theexact construction shown, such construction being for illustrativepurposes only.

Whereas I have described my invention by reference to specific formsthereof, it will be understood that many changes and modifications maybe made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim:

1. In a device of the kind described, the combination of a sink, avertically arranged chamber formed at one end thereof and with the top'of the chamber open and lying below the top of the sink, said verticallyarranged chamber constituting an overflow drain for the sink, a slottedcover for the open end of said drain, the material of the cover betweenadjacent slots lying above the normal surface of the cover and acting asa means for holding soap whereby upon overflow of water from the sink tothe drain the soap resting on the cover will be out of reach of thewater.

2. An improved sink structure comprising a. sink body, a verticallyarranged chamber formed at one end thereof and acting as a combinedshear gate holder and overflow drain, the upper end of the open endedchamber lying below the upper 10 surface of the sink body, a slottedcover removably attached to the material forming the vertical chamberand acting as a cover therefor, a soap container formed integral withthe cover,

and a bearing for a shear gate valve formed in 15 the cover.

WILLIAM C. GROENIGER.

